...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6275416 | Pulse generator circuit, particularly for non-volatile memories A pulse generator circuit for non-volatile memories, is disclosed, including a circuit for determining the instant at which a pulse for incrementing a counter of the memory is generated and generating an increment pulse duration start signal; a circuit fo... | 08/14/2001 |
| 4205338 | Disc recording tracking system A prerecorded track on a disc is automatically tracked resulting in a radial tracking signal. Components of this signal are stored during a prerecording interval. During recording these stored components are used to produce a restored radial tracking sign... | 05/27/1980 |
| 3936883 | Magnetic bubble read/write head Magnetic bubbles are employed to write and read digitized signals of audio, video and digital data in a magnetic medium, while circumventing the problems associated with high linear tape speed or rotary head motion. Writing is accomplished via the interac... | 02/03/1976 |